This episode is brought to you by Armored Haven, full-scale security for any size business. In a recent article in Glamour magazine, the question was asked.

Exactly how many dates, relationships, and heartbreaks will the average woman have before she meets

the one? The answer may surprise you. Citing a recent study on women in America, the author said

that, quote, before finding the man of her dreams, the average woman will experience kisses with

15 men, two long-term relationships, heartbreak twice, seven dates, plus two blind dates and two dates

with someone from the internet, four disaster dates, being stood up once, one live in relationship,

four one-night stands, seven sexual partners, end quote.

Sadly, this means that if the average woman ever makes it to her wedding day,

she's going to bring a ton of romantic and sexual baggage with her.

And one might ask rightly, where were the fathers to protect their daughters from such

lifelong emotional scarring?

Where were the fathers to protect the purity of their daughters?

In the Old Testament, virginity was a priceless

inheritance for the woman to bring into the marriage, which is why there was a test for virginity

at the wedding. If virginity was presumed but not found, it was viewed under the law that the girl

and her father had committed fraud. In modern parlance, we could say that it is not only the

case that men do in fact prefer debt-free virgins without tattoos, but we must state that it is a

positive good that men should prefer virgins to the sexually promiscuous. In a world downstream

from the sexual and feminist revolutions, the boundaries around dating,

courtship, and marriage have been massively eroded. One large contributor to this erosion?

The obliteration of the father's authority. In previous generations, it was seen as a father's responsibility

to ensure that his daughter or son found a quality, godly partner for lifelong marriage.

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